Ramadan Kareem! The Holy month is here again, and started on August 1 for most of the world. This year’s Ramadan is significant for me in a number of ways. Numero uno, it’s my first Ramadan in 6 years with my entire family in Ghana! And by family I mean…
Dear Senegal, I don’t know how I made it through this one. I really don’t. It’s kind of hard to imagine you’d be sitting int he waiting lounge at the airport with all one, two, three pieces of excess luggage checked in…at virtually zero cost. Something that should have otherwise…
The Gist: Adams Apples is a 10-chapter cinema movie series created and directed by Shirley Frimpong Manso, and produced by Ken Attoh. The series follows the lives of the Adams women – four 21st century cosmopolitan Ghanaian women, who undergo the struggles, triumphs and questions that life has to offer.…
‘Tis almost the season for love, or as some would describe it, “love reloaded”. While some people look forward to Valentine’s Day, others cringe from it. One young woman decided to leave her well-paid banking job in the U.S., return home to Ghana, and dedicate her life’s work to it.…
Sometimes all it takes for you to affirm who you are, is to see a glimpse of yourself in someone else.Two weekends ago I had exactly that opportunity when my friend Arame and I spent the afternoon interacting with some writers, poets and painters at the beautiful Goree Island- including…
To say that the new year rushed in is an understatement. I woke up one morning on Dec. 18 and the next thing I knew, it was 2011. Sure, being engrossed in the Young Women’s Knowledge and Leadership Institute (YOWLI) probably had something to do with my lack of awareness…
It’s been over three years since Ghana first struck (black) gold in June 2007, and while the euphoria around the find has somewhat diminished, most Ghanaians still have high hopes for our “new” resource. Then, as now, I am highly skeptical about our oil find and probably more pessimistic than…
Salam (Peace Be Unto You)! This post was supposed to be a quickly copied article or embedded video on Eid al-Adha (The Festival of Sacrifice), but after some thought I decided to just write an entire post on Islam’s second most important festival. Besides, it’s been a minute since I…
Scale of Preference: Water Vs. Oil?The idea of economics being a social science is no novelty and even though the notion dates back as far as the era of Adam Smith and the other fathers of economics, it still holds true today. It would seem that every being, society or…
All too soon, we have come to the end of another opportunity to partake in the Holy Month of Ramadan. Pending the moon sighting, there are speculations that Eid-ul-Fitr (the festival celebrating the end of Ramadan) will take place on Friday, September 10 or Saturday, September 11. Either way, Alhamdulilahi,…